Built an impressive record of achievements through a dedicated 18-year career with this worldwide leader in networking. Earned 4 promotions based upon consistent success in building the teams, standards, and highly available enterprise class virtual / cloud infrastructures that have enabled the organization to grow organically and through acquisition. Requested by Vice President of Engineering for the Cisco Video and Collaboration business to build the team, infrastructure, and best practices to enhance engineering efforts of newly acquired WebEx business. High profile director-level role for Cisco Collaboration Advanced Technology Group leading teams in delivering local / global lab infrastructure and development platform innovations supporting over 1,100 engineers. Direct efforts of 16-30 managers and engineers, comprised of employees, contractors, and vendors, in ensuring projects are delivering on-time, under budget, and with high quality standards. * Nominated and granted the 2013 All Stars Excellence in Leadership Award, out of 3,500 employees nationally, for exceptional performance. * Established the infrastructure team credited with designing and implementing virtual cloud engineering infrastructure across multiple global sites supporting $1+ billion dollar business within 12 months in new role.* Drove a complete modernization of engineering infrastructure, hardened security, and built the next generation of virtualized build operations across an Agile development environment that improved engineers’ productivity by 100% and saved $6-8M in capital spending within the first 2 years.* Introduced and oversaw the adoption of security best practices that enabled the business to pass ISO 27001 external audit with zero deficiencies.

Advanced and given complete responsibility for managing, virtualizing, and optimizing engineering infrastructure for the Voice Technology Group. Led efforts of globally dispersed team in designing and implementing infrastructure solutions supporting global engineering teams developing Cisco MeetingPlace, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco CUCI for China. Recruited, trained, mentored, and led team of 10 geographically dispersed in the United States, China, Ireland, and India, and budgets of $3-4 million.* Conceptualized, recommended, and deployed the 1st virtualized technology base engineering infrastructure in Cisco that delivered $1.8M in capital and power savings annually and increased productivity of engineering teams by 2 fold.

Promoted into newly established role within the Voice Technology Group to oversee the build out, management, and optimization of engineering collaboration platform to enable Research & Development teams to develop and test next-generation of voice and video solutions leveraging the new SIP technology. Following success, chosen to define strategy and framework to migrate development environment for 2 newly acquired companies and products to meet Cisco standards. Led team in administering and supporting Linux development environments for conferencing and voicemail products.* Established the migration strategy, defined the process, and led the architectural design and build out of new development environment that enabled Cisco to rollout new Cisco MeetingPlace and Cisco Unity Connection collaboration products.* Spearheaded the build out of engineering environments that enabled organization beta test new voice and video IP services.

Recruited and given full accountability to architect and build new database environments to support mission-critical corporate eCommerce sites, customer and sales web portals, Internet and Intranet web-based systems, and Oracle ERP. * Pivotal role in building new database environments that contributed to enabling organization to achieve $1B in revenue.

Designed, built, and administered the 1st LAN / WAN infrastructure for the organization that enabled 10 sites within the Western Region to communicate with other sites and to headquarters in Washington DC.